Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring “Think Christ, Live Christian” by Ignatius Fernandez
“Think Christ, Live Christian” is a practical guide to living the two commandments of Jesus – Love God and others. For many of us Christians the relationship with Christ is casual, even cold and calculating – wanting favors from him, without responding in love. We do not understand the immeasurable…
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Featuring “Into the Wind” by Duane L Herrmann
Ninety poems celebrating the natural world, most specifically the open prairie. The landscape lies under the horizon, so it appears deceptively empty. But to those who know how to see, there is no lack of discovery and experience. What are people saying? Duane L. Herrmann offers a somewhat spiritual and wondrous…
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Featuring «Until Next Time» by Walter Bargen
Amazon Description In Until Next Time Walter Bargen’s quiet hand and prodigious powers of observation are formidably displayed. He wields wonder into wisdom at every turn of a page. His imagery pitch-perfect, seamless. “Evening enters us. / We dine on scarlet clouds. / Marbled waters drain to pastel.” Bargen’s poems…
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Featuring “FINDING CRISTINA: A NEW LIFE” (Book 2) by Emilia Rosa
In the previous novel, FINDING CRISTINA, the beautiful young Cristina found her true identity, her parentage, and the love of her life. In this sequel, after moving to New York City with her husband, she gives birth to her son. She and her new family travel by ocean liner to…
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Featuring “Boswell’s Fairies” by Peter Lingard
In the early sixties, bored bank clerk Paul Johnson joins the elite Corps of Royal Marines, where he and Jack Mason, once a professional wrestler, become friends. They and other recruits form H Squad, a unit impressed by and proud of their drill instructor, Sergeant Francis Boswell. The self-proclaimed “finest…
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Featuring “A Harmony in the Key of Tree: A Healing Myth” by Loralee Clark
Clark examines, through 3rd– and 1st-person narrative, how a child grows up and unconsciously looks to trees and her ecosystem to parent and nurture her. It is the trees which help the main character, Mina, uncover the identity that was pre-emptively taken from her due to neglect and abuse; they…
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Featuring “Until Eyes Hear Sound” by Ivor Steven
The title “Until Eyes Hear Sound” can have different meanings depending on your interpretation. It could be a poetic expression, a metaphor for waiting for something to happen, or a state of deep concentration where one is so focused on one’s inner vision that one becomes oblivious to external sounds.…
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Meet Anjetta (Anjie) William-Brown
Anjie is part of the Chewers by Masticadores family. She joined us in May 2025, and she is a regular contributor. Take some time to explore Anjie’s creative life in: https://soullinepoeticgifts.my.canva.site/soulline
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Featuring «The Ajoona Guesthouse» by Stephen House
Book Description and Praise Following its successful premiere, we are proud to publish a chapbook edition of the script of Stephen House’s brilliant one man play, «The Ajoona Guesthouse’» Stephen House is a masterful story teller and «The Ajoona Guesthouse» is a fast paced celebration of the lives of a…
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Review of DeWitt Henry’s «Trim Reckonings” by Elizabeth Gauffreau
I found DeWitt Henry’s latest poetry collection, Trim Reckonings, a pleasure to read and an even greater pleasure to reread and reflect upon. The voice is personal and engaging, the insights subtle and nuanced, the humor never mean-spirited. I particularly enjoyed how varied the subjects are, from family mementoes (“Gas Mask”)…
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Featuring «Cracks of Light: Pandemic Poetry & Fiction 2019-2022» by Sterling Warner
Amazon Description Cracks of Light: Pandemic Poetry & Fiction 2019-2022 offers a diverse collection of personal and objective verse and prose that reflect upon bleak backdrop of the recentCOVID-19 pandemic and the people affected, including loved ones, strangers, first responders, and those who never lost sight of cracks of light. Excerpts Gris-Gris:…
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Featuring “Vampire Verses” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
According to the author (excerpt from interview by Jessica Dickenson) During the pandemic, a fellow started Dracula Daily, which became an overnight sensation. Dracula Daily is an email newsletter that sends you the novel Dracula, in ‘real-time’— as it happens to the characters. It rapidly acquired over 200,000 subscribers and…
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Featuring “The Paralytically Obscure As Beauty Crescendo” by Colin James
“The Paralytically Obscure As Beauty Crescendo” is a wonderful poetry book written by Colin James, illustrated by Ivan de Monbrison, and published in Paris by Les éditions Minces. Sample Poems EATS AT THE FABRIC OF My dirt bike is launching.It carries us along to theimpractical yet necessary,parenthetically pent up.These video…
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Featuring “From Confusion to Clarity: Vital Personal Growth in 30 Days or Less” by Michele Harvey
Our lives are filled with opportunities and challenges. At times, we have experiences that cause us to question why things happen and just what it takes to make life work. Sometimes we feel sad, angry, and misunderstood because we lack the clarity needed to understand our own lives in a…
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Featuring “Exaltation: Stories of Spiritual Adventure” by Duane L Herrmann
Nine stories explore possibilities in this world and another, from the past to some future time. Is what we see and know all that exists and can be known? These stories explore some possibilities. Sample story: I FOUND YOU! “Mom!” The boy shouted with glee and delight as he ran…
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Featuring «Brooklyn Joe and Sal, Two Bensonhurst Boys» by Joe Polacco
Excerpts Sample Passage: (sentimental memories of Stepdad Lou) La Puma’s Leone, the proprietor of a pastry shop in Little Italy, wasn’t verbally “convincing” against insistent fedoras. He was obliged to blast two vile traviatóre, vile rats, with his long-barreled shotgun when he was pushed to set up a protection contract.…
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